Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Gates, Martin 1963 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net December 7, 2014, 11:21 am Ionia Sentinel Standard, 26 Jul 1963 Funeral service for Martin Gates, 81, of Ionia route one, who died July 23 at Ionia County Memorial hospital, was conducted Thursday afternoon at Myers funeral home at 2 o’clock. Rev. Harold Jayne, pastor of First Methodist church, officiated and interment was in the family lot at Saranac cemetery. Bearers were Eldon Smith, Arthur Smith, Stanley Eddy, Ward Courter, Stanley Ayers and Dan Hauter. Attending the service from away were Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Hartwell and son of Detroit, Mrs. Lucille Weber of Houghton Lake, Glenn Butler, Mrs. C. Makowski and Duane Gates of Grand Rapids; Stanley Eddy, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Ayers and Ward Courter of Saranac; and Mr. and Mrs. Owen Smith of Lyons. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/g/gates29239nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb